Racing The Savage Atlantic
December, 1998
a veteran salt named Charlie Barr drove a three-masted steel schooner from America to England in 12 days, four hours and one minute, thereby setting a record for a transatlantic fleet race. Charlie's feat still stood 92 years later when 15 yachts equipped with space-age navigation, communications and weather gizmos and manned by the hired guns of ocean racing's professional elite set out on the same course to set a new record.I sailed on the Adela, a steel schooner flying the American flag and,...
